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Kootenai Cancer Center puts tight beam on brain tumors

Procedure uses enhanced linear accelerator to avoid damaging healthy tissue

May 5, 2011

A medical team at the Kootenai Cancer Center, in Post Falls, now is treating certain brain tumors with high-dose radiation using a $4 million linear accelerator that's specially equipped to perform what's called stereotactic radiosurgery.The of

New Heart & Vascular center opens

Clinic takes remodeled space on Deaconess' campus, merges practices

May 5, 2011

Chey Scott

Rockwood Clinic PS, of Spokane, recently opened the newly formed Rockwood Heart & Vascular Center for a group of its doctors specializing in the diagnoses and treatment of heart disease and cardiovascular problems. Five cardiologists and one now

Back-pain study begins at Revita

Research could determine whether Pneumex system reduces need for surgery

May 5, 2011

Linn Parish

Former Providence Health Care executive Michael Wilson is leading a lower back-pain study that will investigate the effectiveness of Pneumex Inc. rehabilitation equipment and its related treatment method used by Spokane-based Revita Rehab LLC. who

Racing toward awareness

Couple help Parkinson's Disease support group grow, assist others with disorder

May 5, 2011

Treva Lind

At least two years before her diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Judi Sloane remembers the earliest sign that something was wrong. She found it difficult to fasten the buttons of a blouse. "I remember thinking, how did these button holes shrink?"

Real Estate Roundup

May 5, 2011

Mike McLean

Idaho Home Medical, a medical equipment retailer, has leased 1,400 square feet of space in the Northern Lights Mall office-retail center, at 411 W. Harrison, in Coeur d'Alene, and has moved there from larger quarters at 212 W. Ironwood Drive. Craig

VA gets ventilation upgrade - Art only

May 5, 2011

MTM Contractors Inc., of Spokane, has erected towers of scaffolding to enable it to upgrade the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning system in a project at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, at 4815 N. Assembly, in northwest Spokane.

Mission street, water line upgrades to begin soon

North Post Street resurfacing between Maxwell, Cleveland also is set to start this spring

May 5, 2011

Chey Scott

Work is set to start soon to replace a water main and to repave portions of an about 1-1/2 mile stretch of Mission Avenue between Hamilton and Greene streets, the city of Spokane says.The city awarded the $3.3 million contract for the project to

Borrowing from Peter to pay ... Peter

May 5, 2011

Editor's Notebook

As I watch the federal deficit grow, I'm reminded of a college buddy who once got a cash advance from his credit card so that he could pay his—drum roll, please—credit-card bill.My friend's one-time, counter-intuitive move was funny at

Coffee, yogurt franchisees plan shops in Valley center

Both hope to open doors in Common Grounds around Memorial Day

May 5, 2011

Mike McLean

A frozen-yogurt outlet and a coffee shop have leased suites in a retail center at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Sullivan Road, in Spokane Valley, and the lessees say they hope to open outlets there around Memorial Day Froyo Earth Inc.,

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Montana restaurant chain to open second eatery here

MacKenzie River Pizza sets the table for outlet off 57th on South Hill

May 5, 2011

Mike McLean

Even before MacKenzie River Pizza Co. has opened its first Spokane restaurant, the Montana-based chain says it now plans to open a second eatery here.MacKenzie River Pizza has leased 5,860 square feet of space in the Cedar Canyon Village on the